ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

definitely want more daylight toward the evening fwiw, can never keep my directionality oriented correctly when this topic comes up

Honestly, I'd be fine with just going back to the previous dates for the time changes (around 20 years ago). Just make it so the Sun rises later than 7am for the fewest days possible in a year.

act like it's normal (it isn't)

I can sympathize with the feeling that prompted that statement, but all clock times and time zones are contrivances imposed on natural cycles and rhythms in order for society to regulate itself more efficiently. normal is whatever people accept as the norm. you happen not to accept DST and therefore it isn't normal for you, but individuals don't decide norms. that's societal. it's natural for you to object to DST, but it is normal.

Think instead of four time zones across the contiguous 48 states, there should be eight.

That's not far off from the "local time" state that existed before time zones.

Aimless makes a reasonable point that it's all pretty arbitrary

the sun is the same in a relative way but it's later

I'd rather have fucked up health effects than lose an hour of evenings in the summer

That's not far off from the "local time" state that existed before time zones.

Yeah, but I meant by latitude, not longitude.

I meant by latitude

Let's get 'er done! But first, we must prioritize the abolition of the US penny, because we're already this close to living that dream!

lol mookie

We have a new AZ employee, and they don't adhere to Daylight Savings there - except, she tells us, on the Navajo Nation where they do adopt it, since their land covers multiple states and they all want to be on the same clock

you guys know about India Standard Time, right? there are several areas of the world that do much wilder shenanigans with time zones than DST

https://i.imgur.com/Gz0SBwR.jpg

when will the madness end? hopefully in my lifetime, wish there was a grave I could piss on

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1210212060/daylight-saving-time-states-2023

fuck off, Marc Rubio. Permanent Standard or GTFO

anyone defending DST will immediately be FPd, just be honest and admit that you don't care about the increased death rate

admit that you don't care about the increased death rate

iirc, the increased death rate mainly applies during the week or two immediately following the change of clock time and the consequent disruption in sleep habits. which implies that the solution is choosing a permanent clock setting, which could be either STD or DST, as long as you stick with it. My own preference would be shifting the window of daylight forward through the entire year, iow permanent DST. So-called 'morning people' would probably disagree. If you think that's worth an FP, go ahead.

Not arguing anything just have to say it's never bothered me and I didn't realise it had serious ill-effects. I weirdly think I kind of like it because it feels like a signifier of fall and spring at times when I welcome them? I mean I'd be fine if it stopped but it hasn't ever bothered me.

When will it end

How did we get here

What wrong turn did we make

Is there any fixing this

With all my heart I wish there were a way we could turn back the clock

ENBB otm.

I like being able to see when I walk in the morning.

giant bat fucker (gyac)
Posted: 10 March 2023 at 17:21:47
I know this doesn’t matter to most of you who think this is a serious issue but evenings being lighter for longer is actually extremely good if you’re female - or indeed just someone who doesn’t like going out by themselves in the dark or can’t exercise till they finish work or w/e - and like going out and about by yourself and don’t have to worry about getting home earlier. It might have positive effects on anxiety, who can say?

And when the opposite is true, you’re not getting up and going to work in the dark. Crying about this is a crank opinion.

I had never even considered that but it's a good point. I'm sure there is a ton of people who that really impacts. Weirdly I don't love long days - it throws me off so much. I don't like it being dark at 4 (or 3:30 here) but the sun going down around 6 is my sweet spot.

Crying about this is a crank opinion.

New board masthead.

99% of my life i am struggling to make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour, and by extension, get up on time

i am very annoyed that i am currently in one of the 1% phases where i pass out super early and wake up inexplicably long before my alarm, right as we enter the "free hour of sleep" weekend

For me this signals the end of the “sit outside at the bar after 5” period and sends me inside

admit that you don't care about the increased death rate

I don't care about the increased death rate. I want to get off work in the winter and still have an hour or so of sunlight left. DGAF about summer because I'll be inside 24/7 regardless. Bring on DST 365!

honestly I didn’t expect to open the thread and get hit with “DST body count” but let sleeve cook

ahhh

Good morning!

Running a marathon this morning. I did not hate the extra hour of sleep.

Gonna be a long ass Sunday for sure

for some reason I didn’t put two and two together with the thread being bumped and was irritated when I woke up early this morning. But it turns out I did not technically wake up early

cats still refuse to acknowledge clocks, afaict

Is anyone reporting on what this year’s death toll was?

Living in the US now while still administrating a business in the UK, which put its own clocks back last week (?), and now I don't know what is what or where I am, possibly due to having to wake up at 4am every day for the past 6 months.

Back to bed I think.

In the UK the clocks went back a week ago FYI.

(Weirdly I ready your post as "next week" and thought I'd help).

My wife texted me last Monday to say "I had no idea the clocks went back yesterday!" - all her clocks had re-set automatically and she'd just snaffled the extra hour asleep: perfect.

anyone defending DST will immediately be FPd, just be honest and admit that you don't care about the increased death rate

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 3 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Don't you get enough attention at home or something?

Today has already lasted a year

Re: deaths.

Almost no one dies during the skipped hour in the spring, though. Statistically, that's the safest hour of the year!

In the UK the clocks went back a week ago FYI.

That descending riff would have so much more bite on a 6 ITS 434

And if I played guitar, I'd be Jimmy Page
Daylight savings time makes me rage

Lol

5pm and it dark. bad

Arizona is ahead of the game here

5pm and it dark. bad

― ivy., Sunday, November 5, 2023

the offset is having light in the winter before 7:00 in the morning, which is fine by me

daylight savings in the summer means having more light in the evening with the longer days rather than the morning. I have an east-facing bedroom and don't want to wake up to sunlight at 5 am

the switch between daylight savings and standard time seems completely logical to me

Arizona doesn't have daylight savings because it is scorching hot there in the summer

the offset is having light in the winter before 7:00 in the morning, which is fine by me

Which I don't get. Sunrise tomorrow will be roughly 7:30, by which point I'll already have been up for an hour; sunset will be roughly 5:30, and I go to sleep between 10:30 and 11. By the time December rolls around I'll be lucky to get eight hours of daylight in a 24-hour span.

With the time change, sunrise tomorrow will come at 6:40 am, at least where I live. I'm a morning person, but I don't want first sunlight to come after 7:30 am or before 5:00 am. The time change corrects for that

“It gets late so early now”

Calstars Berra